Cut and Run 1985 PG-13, 87 min. Genre: Drama
Director: Ruggero Deodato Cast: Lisa Blount, Willie Aames, Karen Black, Leonard Mann, Richard Lynch, Richard Bright, Valentina Forte, Michael Berryman, Gabriele Tinti, Eriq La Salle, John Steiner, Barbara Magnolfi, Luca Barbareschi
The South American drug war is the setting for this movie about freelance journalist Fran's (Lisa Blount) quest for the son, Tommy (Willie Aames), of corporate executives (Richard Bright and Karen Black). Fran and her cameraman Mark (Leonard Mann) travel to the Venezuelan jungles where they deal with brutal natives in the hostile environment. They discover a drug cartel run by corrupt Col. Brian Horne (Richard Lynch) who is holding Tommy captive, and now Fran and Mark are caught up in a life-threatening drug war.
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The International 2009 R, 118 min. Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Tom Tykwer Cast: Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Brian F. O'Byrne, Ulrich Thomsen, Michel Voletti, Patrick Baladi, Jay Villiers, Fabrice Scott, Haluk Bilginer, Luca Barbareschi, Jack McGee, Allesandro Fabrizi, Felix Solis, Nilaja Sun
Interpol agent Louis Salinger (Clive Owen) teams up with Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman (Naomi Watts) to investigate the International Bank of Business and Credit and its connection to an Italian arms dealer. Salinger and Whitman find their lives in peril as they travel through Berlin, Milan, New York, and Istanbul on the trail of the bank's paid assassin, The Consultant (Brian F. O'Byrne). They end up at New York's Guggenheim Museum where bullets fly and concrete shatters as they try to stop the bank's financing of war and terror.
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Jesus 1999 TV, 173 min. Genre: Drama
Director: Roger Young Cast: Jeremy Sisto, Jacqueline Bisset, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Debra Messing, Gary Oldman, David O'Hara, Jeroen Krabbe, G.W. Bailey, Luca Zingaretti, Luca Barbareschi
Jeremy Sisto takes on the role of Jesus in this modern interpretation of the Bible, which, as it turns out, is rather uninspired.
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La Bionda 1992 N/R, 95 min. Genre: Foreign / Drama aka: The Blonde
Director: Sergio Rubini Cast: Nastassja Kinski, Sergio Rubini, Ennio Fantastichini, Veronica Lazar, Umberto Raho, Giacomo Piperno, Giorgio Gobbi, Antonio Scarano, Luca Barbareschi
Shy, lonely Tommaso (Sergio Rubini) accidentally hits Christine (Nastassja Kinski) with his car. The next morning she arrives at his doorstep with amnesia asking for help, and the reluctant Tommaso takes her in. He gradually falls in love with her, but when Christine regains her memory and realizes that she is a drug dealer's lover, she returns to her lover. Tommaso now attempts to get her back.
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| 1. Cut and Run (1985)
2. The International (2009)
3. Jesus (1999)
4. La Bionda (1992) aka: The Blonde
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